With each day that passes and after the information available to the Generalitat and the Spanish Government on what happened during the critical meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) on October 29 is made public, we know better what was done well and how. Too bad it was this tragic day when 220 people died and 9 are still missing. During her appearance at the Congress of Deputies, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, revealed that the Cecopi meeting during the key DANA day in Valencia had “gone dark” between 6 and 7 p.m. In other words, the institutions that followed the key meeting by videoconference found themselves without information about what was happening. Among them, the government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé.
This so-called news break coincides with the time when the President of the Generalitat was still having lunch and at 6:28 p.m. he made the now famous call to the mayor of Cullera, Jordi Mayor, during which Mazón did not informed of any of the events. the risks and alerts that, at that time, had already been put on the table at the emergency center. This period also coincides with 6:45 p.m. when, as the president recognized in the Corts Valencianes, the Minister of Justice, Salomé Pradas, warned him that there was a serious danger of overflowing of the Forata dam and he decided to go to Cecopi in person. Between 6:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., the time when the President of the Generalitat arrived in Cecopi, Mazón himself explained to the Valencian Parliament that the journey between València and Eliana cost him more than expected due to heavy traffic jams. due to rush hours and storm issues. Did the blackout take place so that the Minister of Justice could contact President Mazón and thus make a decision?
This question and others that citizens are asking with these new revelations could not be revealed this Thursday, since it was the Presidency of the Generalitat which carried out its particular “information blackout” on this subject. The Vice-President of the Valencian Government, Susana Camarero, did not hold her daily press conference to deal with the media and only responded to journalists on the subject at the entrance to Cecopi. “The one who has been disconnected, without a doubt, for twenty-one days is Vice President Ribera,” she responded when asked about this issue. He didn’t say anything else.
Neither did Cecopi’s spokesperson, Rosa Touris, who in her intervention after the meeting said that the issue of “going black” had not been discussed in Cecopi, and therefore gave no further explanation. The President of the Generalitat, who since his appearance at the Corts has not given any press conference or interview to any media, still does not introduce himself and limits himself to quickly answering questions and running to the entrance and exit of Cecopi or during a visit. to municipalities. This Wednesday, the president of the Generalitat was not even within reach of the media. Not a single event on his public agenda.
The one who answered journalists’ questions on the subject is the Government delegate. “I don’t want to spend all my time talking about what happened on the 29th, but of course what I can tell you is that it was the Generalitat that announced to us that it was arresting Cecopi and stopped him for an hour,” Bernabé said.
The reasons he stopped it and the time it took to “reconnect” and for the meeting to “start again” need to be explained by the person who “told us they were stopping and would notify us when it resumes”, ” Bernabé added in front of the media, and insisted that it is the Generalitat which must “give the explanations on the reasons why they stopped it”.
Bernabé also indicated that the Cecopi was “stopped for an hour” this afternoon of the Dana during which a flood devastated the province of Valencia, after the Generalitat informed the participants in this meeting that it was going to “make a break.” , and after the “break”, the meeting resumed. “They will be the ones who will have to explain why they arrested him,” he insisted. Well, for now, the information blackout continues.
